And Everything Is Going Fine: Criterion Collection
June 27, 2012
American actor and playwright Spalding Gray died in 2004 and was widely considered to be one of the greatest monologists ever to tackle the medium. He is primarily known for his four films that depict monologues about various topics but chief among them,...
Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel
June 18, 2012
The rise and fall and redemptive arcs of rock musicians are the stuff that MTV Behind the Music specials are made of. You know the drill: a musician works their way up to dizzying heights of fame and fortune; they blow their money on any number of vices;...
Mandelson: The Real PM?
September 12, 2011
The politically notorious Peter Mandelson is known as the Prince of Darkness, and former party leader Neil Kinnock once claimed that those who called Mandelson ‘Labour’s evil genius’ were only half right. So, who is the real man beneath the Machiavellian...
On Any Sunday
September 12, 2011
As a youngster, the revered director of surf movies, Bruce Brown, was inspired to get his first bike by Steve McQueen’s motorcycle memorable scenes in The Great Escape. Brown turned to the sport of motorcycle racing in 1971. This quintessential motorcycle...
The Royal Wedding Celebration
May 11, 2011
ITV Studios Home Entertainment wasted no time in releasing The Royal Wedding, following the laudable royal nuptials on 29 April 2011. It is bound to be a real crowd pleaser on the back of the months’ worth of anticipation preceding and surrounding the...
The Times of Harvey Milk: Criterion Collection
March 21, 2011
With the release of Gus Van Sant’s superb biopic Milk (2008), which featured an Academy Award-winning performance by Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, there was renewed interest in the inspiring human rights activist and one of the earliest openly gay American...
Crumb: Criterion Collection
August 6, 2010
Underground comic book artist Robert Crumb rose to prominence in the 1960s thanks to the creation of popular characters like Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat, his most famous character (much to his chagrin). Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff knew Crumb personally...
Louie Bluie: Criterion Collection
August 2, 2010
Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff got his start making documentaries and Louie Bluie (1985) was his first film. In the mid-1970s, he worked at the Department of Social Services in San Francisco and during his off-hours played in the Cheap Suit Serenaders, a band...
Stevie Wonder – Biography Channel
July 30, 2010
Stevie Wonder – or Steveland Hardaway Judkins to his mother – needs no introduction. Were he on a Top Trumps card, his stats would look something like this: Top ten US hits: 30 No.1 US Hits: 10, Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame: Inducted,...
Ghost Hunters International: Season 1, Part 1
June 14, 2010
The SciFi Channel (now SyFy) hit the motherlode with the surprise success of Ghost Hunters, a reality television show where a team of investigators explore paranormal activity at a reputedly haunted location somewhere in the United States. Imagine the...
